The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 5Joseph Shackell, 1830 - English periodicals |
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... animals , -others that it was produced by a shell- fish similar to the mussel , which is known to throw out ... animal character , so that , from their general appearance , all you could suppose to result from him would be the ...
... animals , -others that it was produced by a shell- fish similar to the mussel , which is known to throw out ... animal character , so that , from their general appearance , all you could suppose to result from him would be the ...
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... animal to preponderate over the moral . His giant genius has done much more , perhaps , than any man living for Phy . sical Science , and much is owing to him for his improvements in thermometers ; but no thermometer of his or other ...
... animal to preponderate over the moral . His giant genius has done much more , perhaps , than any man living for Phy . sical Science , and much is owing to him for his improvements in thermometers ; but no thermometer of his or other ...
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... animals would have sprung from the cliff . " " We were mounted , " was the reply , " but terrified at the lightning , our jaded steeds refused to move , and fearful of goading , lest they should become despe- rate , and carry us to ...
... animals would have sprung from the cliff . " " We were mounted , " was the reply , " but terrified at the lightning , our jaded steeds refused to move , and fearful of goading , lest they should become despe- rate , and carry us to ...
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... animal can approach them without terror , ' Before the inhabitants of Carazan were made subject to the Tartar emperor , they had the custom of murdering every stranger who came among them possessing any superior qualities of mind or ...
... animal can approach them without terror , ' Before the inhabitants of Carazan were made subject to the Tartar emperor , they had the custom of murdering every stranger who came among them possessing any superior qualities of mind or ...
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... animals , inciting their in- quiring mind to possess information as to their real history , manners , & c . & c ... animal . Natural habitation , and sub - divisions in which it has been placed by natural- Supposed age . By whom ...
... animals , inciting their in- quiring mind to possess information as to their real history , manners , & c . & c ... animal . Natural habitation , and sub - divisions in which it has been placed by natural- Supposed age . By whom ...
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Page 378 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 377 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 265 - Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Page 250 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." " I hope," said Nelson, " none of our ships have struck." Hardy answered,
Page 250 - Captain Hardy, some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned ; and, again taking the hand of his dying friend and commander, congratulated him on having gained a complete victory. How many of the enemy were taken he did not know, as it was impossible to perceive them distinctly ; but fourteen or fifteen at least. " That's well, cried Nelson,
Page 266 - A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.
Page 39 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I...
Page 170 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain...
Page 251 - Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek, and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty." Hardy stood over him in silence for a moment or two, then knelt again, and kissed his forehead. " Who is that ?" said Nelson, and being informed, he replied, "God bless you, Hardy.
Page 86 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.